Re: PATCH & call for help: Marking ISA only drivers

[Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>]

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> Hallo,
> 
> This patch tries to make most ISA only drivers dependent on CONFIG_ISA. 

If only for the fact that it allows you to don't look at archaic
hardware configuration options makes it a good idea I think.
Bus is bus if we have CONFIG_PCI, we should have CONFIG_ISA as well.

> The motivation is that it is a lot of work to get old drivers to compile
> meaningfully (at least without warnings, not even testing them) on x86-64
> and a lot of them are obviously not 64bit safe.  As it is very unlikely
> that x86-64 boxes will ever have ISA slots[1] one simple way for that
> is just removing the old ISA drivers from the configuration.
> 
> BTW I think CONFIG_ISA would be an useful configuration option for 
> i386 too - at least most modern PCs do not come with ISA slots anymore.

Plase add mcd and mcdx - CD-ROM drivers. Both of them required
an special "controller" card, which was indeed ISA based.